I really miss the natural hair community & watching natural hair content generally. That was so good for Black Women; we were thriving at it, too. And as rapidly as it rose to popularity, it’s crazy how dead the whole concept is now. I think it had more to do w all the division created over routines around maintenance than anything else. Everybody was entirely too pushy w trying to make what worked for them personally a staple for taking care of textured hair in general — & that shit walked so that colorism, featurism, texturism & misogynoir could run. Now the same ppl who was riding the wave a few years ago & swearing by all these products, brands, sponsors, wash day & styling methods have put natural hair away as a concept entirely.

Also, why the hell did we waste all that energy prefacing everything w, “Stop doing this and do these things for your hair to grow to tailbone length overnight🤡” — just to go right back to weave and perms? All that researching for what? All the dedication to disproving antiblack/misogynoir notions about Black hair for what? All the redefining of protective styles for what? All the trying to unlearn the belief structures around the colonization of Black hair for what? What did we teach ourselves fr? How did we make things any easier for Black Women and little Black girls? It’s tragic af. The Natural Hair Community/Movement is dead, it seems like. I don’t think we fought hard enough to prevent what happened to it honestly :\

I think girls should get more used to seeing their natural faces, and understand that they’re not slobs for not wearing any makeup

its kind of crazy how tumblr culture did a complete 180 somewhere between 2018 and 2020 and most of this website has stopped being proud of how miserable they are and instead the general mindset is now all about finding beauty in the smallest things and loving yourself despite it all i hope we all never stop thinking this way

do y'ever think about how anthropologists of a distant future culture might find a nuclear waste site and read the messages on it and go "oh I recognize this from the digital fragments of memes we keep finding, this place must have been a really popular comedy venue"

Is it normal wanting to change my tags and doing http status responses out of it? Like, my knowledge is close to zero in this field but I guess it’s time to learn something new (what school doesn’t teach us).

zenith tag change? 👀 just make sure to make note of them so you don’t forget them !!

robin are you getting gay discourse in your inbox

turns out putting the word queer in a post that would inevitably blow up was a great way to make people ridiculously furious over things that barely matter or were a problem in the 1970s

i don’t think y’all understand what it’s really like being of african diaspora descent

'alright 😤😤😤😤 since y'all so inept 😤😤😤 at drawing this type of bodies/hair/clothes I am making this tutorial for you 🙄🙄 to learn and finally stop drawing it the WRONG way🤬🤬🤬🤬'

when. when characters are constantly comparing themselves to their friends, allies, teammates, etc. and using that to hate on themselves bc they believe they’re inferior, and that the others are on some higher level of skill, talent, or even usefulness that they may never reach… that always gets me.

That giant horny emoji poast broke my app and froze my phone for a minute. Nothing fucks up my phone, what the hell was that?

I know I have probably brought this up before but I cannot tell you how often my brain will go to thinking about the coronation street 50th anniversary episodes. Like they should teach that in SCHOOLS I remember being in primary school having in depth discussions with classmates about the whole storyline. Everything that happened to Ashley Peacock is INGRAINED in my brain. People will tell you coughing into handkerchiefs and finding blood was invented before those episodes but they’re WRONG. He literally invented that.

life is funny bc it feels like itll last forever while also feeling like it will end at any second

call me crazy but really pretty girls don’t get loved- people only ever wanna fuck they don’t wanna date

and other lies we tell ourselves

PSA for new tumblr users!

This place is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it!

Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.

This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.

What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.

The danger is in a particular location... it increases towards a center... the center of danger is here... of a particular size and shape, and below us.

The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.

The danger is to the body, and it can kill.

The form of the danger is an emanation of energy.

The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.